Book factsheet Patricia Highsmith General Fiction Ladies 320 pages 11.6 × 18.4 cm November 2020 Published by Diogenes as Ladies Original title: Ladies World rights are handled by Diogenes Film rights are handled by Diogenes Rights currently sold: Italian (La nave di Teseo) Korean (Bookhouse) Bestseller Spiegel Bestseller Movie adaptations 2016: A Kind Of Murder Director: Andy Goddard Screenplay: Susan Boyd Cast: Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Haley Bennett 2015: Carol / Salz und sein Preis Director: Todd Haynes Screenplay: Phyllis Nagy Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara und Kyle Chandler 2014: The two faces of January Director: Hossein Amini Screenplay: Hossein Amini Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac 2009: Cry of the Owl Director: Jamie Thraves Screenplay: Jamie Thraves Cast: Paddy Considine, Julia Stiles 2005: Ripley under Ground Director: Roger Spottiswoode Cast: Barry Pepper, Tom Wilkinson, Claire Forlani Before Patricia Highsmith shot to fame with her debut novel Strangers on a Train, she wrote psychological stories. About uprooted immigrants, courageous lovers, intuitive girls and boys, sensitive 1999: The Talented Mr. Ripley Director: Anthony Minghella spiders, and women and men buffeted around by the storms of life. Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Back then, her stories were published in school journals and women’s Law, Cate Blanchett magazines. All the more wonderful for us, as we can now discover these raw 1996: Once You Meet a Stranger diamonds. Director: Tommy Lee Wallace Sixteen early stories, four of them previously unpublished in book Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Mimi Kennedy, Andi form: Chapman The World’s Champion Ball-Bouncer Primroses Are Pink 1993: Trip nach Tunis The Story of Sydney Director: Peter Goedel The Legend of the Convent of Saint Fotheringay Cast: Hunt David, Sillas Karen Further included are the following stories: Miss Juste and the Green Rompers, Doorbell for Louisa, When the 1991: Der Geschichtenerzähler Fleet Was in at Mobile, Director: Rainer Boldt The Mightiest Mornings, The Still Point of the Turning World, A Mighty Cast: Christine Kaufmann, Udo Schenk, Anke Sevenich Nice Man, Uncertain Treasure, Birds Poised to Fly, Magic Casements, The Heroine, The Snail-Watcher, and Mrs. Afton, among thy Green Braes. 1 / 7 Movie adaptations (cont'd) 1989: A Curious Suicide Director: Bob Biermann Cast: Nicol Williamson, J. Lapotaire 1989: Le jardin des Disparus Director: Mai Zetterling Cast: Ian Holm, Eileen Atkins 1989: L´Amateur de Frissons Director: Roger Andrieux Cast: Jean-Pierre Bisson, Marisa Berenson 1989: L´Epouvantail Director: Maroun Bagdad Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel, J. Fox 1989: La ferme du malheur Director: Samuel Fuller Cast: Philippe Léotard, Assumpta Serna, Chris Photo: © Archiv Diogenes Verlag Campion Patricia Highsmith (1921 – 1995) born in Texas, grew up and studied 1989: Legitime Défense in New York. She achieved worldwide success in 1950 with her debut Director: John Berry Cast: T. Weld, D. Olbrychski novel Strangers on a Train, made into the famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr. Ripley, published in 1955, was awarded the ›Edgar Allan Poe Scroll‹ by the Mystery Writers of 1987: Le cri du hibou Director: Claude Chabrol America and introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley. Screenplay: Odile Barski Cast: Christophe Malavoy, Mathilda May, Jean-Pierre Kalfon 1986: Die zwei Gesichter des Januars Director: Wolfgang Storch Cast: Yolande Gilot, Charles Brauer, Thomas Schücke 1983: Tiefe Wasser Director: Franz Peter Wirth Cast: Jo Nasch, Vic van Allen 1983: Ediths Tagebuch Her Diaries and The Complete Ripley The Animal-Lover's Book Director: Hans Werner Geissendörfer Cats Notebooks Novels Of Beastly Murder / Cast: Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna, Leopold 160 pages 1376 pages 2224 pages Little Tales Of Misogyny 2005 Verschuer 2021 2015 416 pages 2004 1981: Eaux profondes Director: Michel Deville Screenplay: Florence Delay Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Luc Moreau 1977: Dites-lui que je l’aime Director: Claude Miller Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou 1977: Die gläserne Zelle Posthumous Short Stories Posthumous Short Stories Drawings Small g - a Summer idyll Director: Hans Geissendörfer II I 144 pages 432 pages Cast: Helmut Griem, Brigitte Fossey, Dieter 1995 384 pages 400 pages 1995 Laser 2002 2002 1976: L’ami americain Director: Wim Wenders Cast: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer 1969: Once You Kiss a Stranger Director: Robert Sparr Cast: Paul Burke, Carol Lynley, Martha Hyer 2 / 7 Movie adaptations (cont'd) 1963: Le meurtrier; Enough Rope Director: Claude Autant-Lara Cast: Gert Fröbe, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Yvonne Fourneaux, Marina Vlady 1962: Le meurtrier Director: Claude Autant-Lara Cast: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Gert Fröbe, Maurice Ronet Ripley Under Water Found in the Street Carol or The Price of Salt Tales of Natural and 1959: Plein soleil 432 pages 408 pages Unnatural Catastrophes 360 pages 1991 1990 272 pages 1986 Director: René Clément 1988 Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforet 1951: Strangers on a Train Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker Awards 2015 Carol-Kinofilm von Todd Haynes bekommt ›Preis der Frankfurter Suspense Mermaids on the Golf People Who Knock on the The Black House Buchmesse‹ als ›beste literarische 136 pages Course and Other Stories Door 352 pages 1985 232 pages 384 pages 1982 Verfilmung‹ 1985 1983 1993 ›Finnischer Krimipreis‹ der Suomen dekkariseura für ihr Gesamtwerk 1990 ›Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres‹ 1987 ›Prix Littéraire‹ des Festival du cinéma américain von Deauville 1979 ›Schwedischer Krimipreis‹ in der Kategorie ›Grand Master‹ der Svenska Deckarakademin als Auszeichnung für das Lebenswerk der Autorin 1975 ›Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir‹ für L'Amateur d'escargot (dt. Der Schneckenforscher; Original: The Snail Watcher) The Boy who Followed A Game for the Living Slowly, Slowly in the Edith's Diary 1964 ›Dagger Award‹ in der Kategorie ›Best Ripley 336 pages Wind 436 pages 496 pages 1979 288 pages 1978 Foreign Novel‹ für The Two Faces of 1980 1979 Movie Adaptation January (dt. Unfall auf Kreta/Die zwei Gesichter des Januars) 1957 ›Grand prix de littérature policière‹ in der Kategorie ›International‹ für Plein Soleil – Monsieur Ripley (dt. Der talentierte Mr. Ripley; Original: The Talented Mr. Ripley) 1946 ›O. Henry-Preis‹ in der Kategorie ›Best First-Published Story‹ für The Heroine (dt. Die Heldin. Dt. in: Der Schneckenforscher; in Original: The Snail Watcher) The Glass Cell Deep Water The Cry of the Owl Ripley's Game 288 pages 304 pages 320 pages 384 pages Praise 1976 1976 1976 1976 Movie Adaptation Movie Adaptation Movie Adaptation Ladies »One can see a gifted perfectionist at work in these early stories. They are studies for the specific type of detective novel that won Patricia Highsmith international fame from the 1950s onwards.« – Peter Meisenberg / WDR 3, Cologne »It is her rare capacity to make the reader question the moral universe in which we all hoped we lived. To that extent, she is not just a good writer, she is a great one.« – A.N. Wilson / The Tablet, London 3 / 7 Praise (cont'd) »Patricia Highsmith is one of the greatest American writers of the last century.« – Nicole Dietrich / Ö1, Vienna »Theft, adultery, murder plots, complicity, betrayal – in her excellent crime novellas, the author shines a light on her characters’ inner worlds. Their motives are what fascinate her most.« – Juliane Bergmann / NDR Kultur, Hamburg Strangers on a Train This Sweet Sickness The Blunderer A Dog's Ransom »Patricia Highsmith doesn't get swept away 256 pages 272 pages 272 pages 400 pages 1974 1974 1974 1974 with her characters, she examines them Movie Adaptation Movie Adaptation Movie Adaptation meticulously, as though under a microscope.« Bestseller – Brigitte Neumann / Bayern 2, Munich »They [the stories] tell of women who are pyromaniacs, nuns, fanatical gym teachers – they are entertaining, sharp-witted and sometimes even eerie.« – Brigitte, Hamburg Patricia Highsmith »Patricia Highsith was the undisputed mistress as well as one of the creators of the modern psychological crime novel.« – Simon Shaw / Mail on Sunday The Two Faces of January A Suspension of Mercy The Snail Watcher Ripley Under Ground 256 pages 224 pages 256 pages 368 pages »Patricia Highsmith keeps moving, darting in 1974 1972 1974 1973 and out of our fields of vision, making Movie Adaptation Movie Adaptation Movie Adaptation afterimages that will tremble – but stay – in our minds.« – The New Yorker »For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith.« – The Times, London »Many of her stories reflect the kind of breathtaking misanthropy that could only have been achieved over a lifetime. And virtually all share the same sense of macabre inevitability, which means that the number of stories end up in almost that many deaths. Ms. Highsmith The Talented Mr. Ripley The Tremor of Forgery Those Who Walk Away was never one for halfway solutions. What is 336 pages 288 pages 336 pages interesting about Ms. Highsmith is that instead 1971 1970 1968 of describing such an denouement with Movie Adaptation suitably ghoulish overtones, she typically treats it in almost businesslike fashion. Her interest is in the generally unspeakable tensions and resentments that lead up to such outbursts, not in the messy side of murder.« – Janet Maslin / The New York Times »Patricia Highsmith is a giant of the genre. The original,